When Lashonda Taylor, Ed.D., associate chief of staff for Kent State University’s President’s Office, graduated from high school in 1997, she set out on the road to a college education.But Taylor’s college journey was filled with detours that took her off course. A major life event immediately thrust her into the job market, and it was not until 2010 that she enrolled at Kent State to earn her bachelor’s degree.“Career-wise, I knew I wanted to go to college, but I had my oldest son young. I was 19 when I had Pyrce and that put a wrench in my plans for college because I needed to work full time...

On March 4th, 2024, students in Elementary French II had the opportunity to incorporate cooking in their French class. Students gathered in the DI Teaching Kitchen to make crêpes, a traditional dish made in Brittany, France. This exciting experience was hosted by Charlotte Dagorno, a graduate translation student and lecturer of Elementary French II and Dr. Aurélien Riclet, a French professor.Events like these are opportunities for students to not only learn a language but also learn about another culture. We hope that events like these encourage students to share what they learned with their f...

Healthcare professionals are in high demand and needed everywhere.Several programs on the Salem and East Liverpool campuses have specific, individual application processes – including their own deadlines.For currently enrolled Kent State students, there are eight healthcare programs accepting applications at your hometown university:East Liverpool Campus:Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) - Apply now until June 1, 2024Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) – Apply nowSalem Campus:Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)– Apply now until May 13, 2024Radiologic and Imaging SciencesComputed Tomography (CT)...

Living. Learning. Creating. For students in Prentice Hall, they can now do all three in the same space.On Tuesday, Feb. 27, the Living in The Arts Living-Learning Community, located in Prentice Hall, opened the doors to its new and improved studio space with an open house to explore and learn about all the new attributes of the updated creative studio. {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/923879473.jpg?itok=lh7dgdbC","video_url":"https://vimeo.com/923879473","settings":{"responsive":true,"width":"854","height":"480","autoplay":false},"...

 Tom Brewer, Ph.D., M.Jur., CHCCongratulations to Tom Brewer, Ph.D., M.Jur., CHC, professor of health policy and management in the Kent State University College of Public Health, who has been promoted to full professor.Learn more about Tom Brewer    Abby Eng, Ph.D., and Melissa Zullo, Ph.D.Congratulations to Abby Eng, Ph.D., associate professor in biostatistics, and Melissa Zullo, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology, program coordinator, and associate dean for academic and faculty affairs, who have been named Most Valuable Professor (MVP) by KSU Women’s Lacrosse senior st...

 The Kent State University Department of Physics is proud to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Zhangbu Xu.  Dr. Xu comes to us from Brookhaven National Laboratory.  His focus is on the experimental study of high-energy nuclear physics, including the quark-gluon plasma and the structure of nucleons and nuclei.  Dr. Xu is a previous spokesperson for the STAR experiment at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and has published over 320 papers, which have received approximately 43,000 citations.  At Kent State University, Dr. Xu will continue his work o...

Charles “Chuck” Hart, Ph.D., CIH, CSP, RS, DLAAS, dedicated his career in public health to safeguarding environmental health and safety.  Hart was recruited to Kent State in 2012 to be the director of the Bachelor of Science Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) concentration, bringing with him more than 35 years of professional and academic expertise. Previously Hart worked as an EHS director at two universities, as a county health commissioner and environmental health director, as a registered environmental health specialist, as an environmental health consultant, and as an associate...